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Friday, May 18, 2012

2 Million

At about 6.30pm earlier this evening, my humble blog, simplyROBIN has exceeded 2 million page visits. Thank you all beautiful people for your constant support and encouragement. You have made my time spent here very worthwhile, and meaningful at the same time. This blog would not have gone anywhere without you !!

Between Light and Shadow

It took me many years (not sure when Blogger started to track my blog stats, must have been 3-4 years ago) to achieve 1 million visitor mark, which was attained in January earlier this year. However. in just a span of four months, this blog has received another million visits, mostly thanks to the Olympus OM-D E-M5 review saga which I did earlier. Indeed this blog is surely growing, and expanding. I will do my very best to keep this place updated as often as possible, with fresh and new photographs. Where will this blog lead to in the future? Lets just cross the bridge when we come to it. For now, I just do what I do best: enjoying shutter therapy.

People who come to this blog because of something interesting (be it OM-D EM-5 or something else) - and then stay here and return, and subscribe because of the quality of your posts and photos. So these 2 million visitors are well-deserved. Thank you!

Although your page views jumped the most in recent months, I believe your work over the past few years (constant writing and improving your photo skills) is what enabled you to capitalize on recent new traffic to stay and grow more. Congrats!

I am one of those 'past four months' newcomers, Robin, and I enjoy your posts tremendously. I thought I had left my Olympus system permanently, but your posts have inspired me to take my E-510 out and about, and I am enjoying the results.

Hello John,Thanks for the kind support and your visit to this blog, it means a lot to me. E-510 is a great camera, I still have an E-520, and I still shoot with it from time to time. Glad that you are keeping the camera alive ! It deserves some shutter therapy action.

Just saw your silhouette image and smiled. By sheer coincidence, I just finished taking silhouette photos tonight of 3 of my family members, my mother in law and my son and daughter to put together into an poster art composition for my wife's father who has a fascination with silhouette images and has collected many books over the years (mostly from graphic artists). Works really well as your photos shows. A fun way to be very graphic in contrast, yet still a photograph. Taking the silhouette photos, I found the success comes with the nice contour edge lines of a good profile of subject engaged in some interesting activity or strong pose, whether planned or spontaneously captured. I did my own photos with artificial backlighting and manual exposure for silhouettes of subjects with good results.Anyway, also wanted to say congrats on hitting 2 million page views. Well deserved! I enjoy your blog and your images are inspiring.

Hello Adrian,Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on silhouette images, and some tips on optimizing the results !! Glad to hear that you are utilizing this technique for family images, which not many people would do. I was initially drawn by the long shadow (late afternoon shoot) which was rather dramatic already by itself, but as I watched carefully, at certain "hot spots" where there were strong backlit, silhouette shots was possible. Then I thought why not combine the silhouette and shadows together? It worked, but I do admit this shot was a lucky one, the kid was walking by very fast, and I only had one chance.

Hi Robin,I'm one of the new comers who stopped by once and now have you bookmarked and come back daily. I like your writing style, your photographs and your sincerity. Looking forward to following you into the future. Keep up the good work.Tom Collins

Hello Robin,Congratulation on hitting the 2 million pages view mark. You are a magnet and we all know why. Good martial artist keeps his knowledge to himself but great martial artist shares it with the whole world. The result: the whole world love him and everyone eager to be like him, the great martial artist. In photography, you are one of those great artist. I salute you. More pages will be shared because you are the magnet and deserve to be one.Later I have an official DKSH photo session in our boardroom. Wish me luck.Have a great day, Robin.John Ari Ragai

Hello John,Oh dear I am certainly not a martial artist, or not worthy to be compared to that kind of level. Nonetheless thanks for the constant support, and kind compliments. Good luck for the photo-session !!

I wanted to send this congrats quickly, since at the rate you are deservedly going, I'd be running into my congrats on you reaching 3 million if I wasn't fast enough !!!

"Between Light and Shadow" is a striking and compelling composition -- the very essence of the strengths of B&W use, with the "brush strokes" of your distinctive warm humanistic style shining through !

yay !! thanks to you too ! I met you here on my research for the perfect camera, but not only did i find answers to my quest (waiting for an omd...), i also found the most refreshing (and exotic?) web site to change my mind at the end of a big day or week.Thank you for your so very beautiful images, and thank you for your beautifull mind (should thank you family and friend for that too :))have a wonderfull day !!